Tanya Andrew

Study for forthcoming exhibition A Void

As an art therapist the visual aspect of my practice is key to responding to clients; through the artwork they make, the artwork I might make in response and how I work with visual clues in their communication between myself (the therapist) and their art. In art therapy this is referred to as the tripartite relationship.

​My art practice encompasses a wide variety of media but more often takes the form of painting. I am drawn to the idiosyncrasies that surround us, my work questions how we make sense of these and relate to them in a wider social context. The main themes throughout my work focus on containment, boundaries and interrelationships. More specifically, when I work on canvas, I look to visually represent thoughts that arise and the connections that are made through these realisations. In this sense I feel my work reflects an existential struggle through abstraction.